| NOUN | attribute | worldliness, sophistication, mundaneness, mundanity | the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment |
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| attribute | worldliness | concern with worldly affairs to the neglect of spiritual needs |
| Sounds | wer'ldliynahs | |
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| Rhymes | abacus ... zealous: 1164 rhymes with ahs... | |
| Meaning | The quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment. | |
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| Synonyms | sophistication, mundaneness, mundanity | |
| Broader | quality | An essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone |
| Opposite | naivete, naivety, naiveness | lack of sophistication or worldliness |
| Spanish | mundología, sofisticación | |
| Catalan | sofisticació | |
| Adjectives | worldly | very sophisticated especially because of surfeit |
| Meaning | concern with worldly affairs to the neglect of spiritual needs. | |
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| Example | "he disliked the worldliness of many bishops around him" | |
| Broader | outwardness, externality | The quality or state of being outside or directed toward or relating to the outside or exterior |
| Opposite | spirituality, spiritualism, spiritism, otherworldliness | concern with things of the spirit |
| Adjectives | worldly | characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world |
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